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slug

noun
/slʌɡ/

Etymology

Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch. The sense of a hitchhiking commuter is from the sense of a counterfeit bus token. Bus operators considered sluggers to be cheating as if they were using counterfeit tokens.

  1. inherited from slugge — “lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”

Definitions

  1. Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.

  2. A slow, lazy person

    A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.

  3. A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm

    A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.

    • […] all our Ammunition was spent. Those of us who had Money made Slugs of it; their next Shift was to take the middle Screws out of their Guns, and charge their Pieces with them.
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    1. A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.

    2. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.

    3. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

    4. A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of…

      A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.

    5. The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1…

      The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.

      • The average slug has a mass of around 0.00002 slugs.

    6. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.

      • This is perhaps best done by considering a unit cell consisting of one bubble and part of the liquid slugs on each side of it…
      • When these layers are recovered they inevitably result in a slug of sawdust which goes into the digester and tends to plug the screens in a Kamyr digester.
      • Then, just a few nights before August 6, Gilbert testified that a "slug of sand-rock" weighing an estimate of one to two tons fell on his continuous miner as he was taking a cut, approximately fifteen feet from where he was standing.

    7. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.

    8. An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow…

      An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.

    9. A black screen used to separate broadcast items.

    10. A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine

      A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.

    11. A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.

    12. A hitchhiking commuter.

    13. The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.

      • Slugs are better than just appending the document ID to the URL, as they are readable and understandable by visitors. They are also an important part of a good SEO. So that we can use slugs, every slug has to be unique.

    14. A hindrance, an obstruction.

      • money would be stirring, if it were not for this slug

    15. A ship that sails slowly.

      • His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all sluggs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.

    16. A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location,…

      A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.

    17. An infertile egg of a reptile.

    18. To drink quickly

      To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.

    19. To take part in casual carpooling

      To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

      • "We believe in car-pooling, but let's do it without restricting traffic. ..." Sam Snyder, 51, of Burke, who has been slugging to his job at the US Customs ....
      • no sane person would attempt to commute that far every day. Sure they do. I've often slugged to Fredericksburg and back. The VRE carries hundreds of people per day, and the I-95 HOV lanes carry tens of thousands of people each day.

    20. To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller…

      To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.

    21. To move slowly or sluggishly

      To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.

      • To slug in slouth and sensuall delights.

    22. To load with a slug or slugs.

      • to slug a gun

    23. To make sluggish.

      • So little do we fear , you slug you

    24. A hard blow, usually with the fist.

    25. To hit very hard, usually with the fist.

      • He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
      • The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.
      • The man is a mechanical genius. He also has one of the worst conduct records in the army. He likes to slug officers.

    26. A special-purpose security of the State and Local Government Series.

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Derived

banana slug, black slug, cherry slug, ghost slug, greenhouse slug, hump slug, land slug, leatherleaf slug, leopard slug, mantleslug, monkey slug, pancake slug, pear slug, red triangle slug, rifled slug, road slug, rose slug, sand slug, Santa Barbara shelled slug, sea slug, sell salt to a slug, semislug, slinch, slug bug, slugburger, slug caterpillar, sluggish, sluggos, sluggy, slughorn, slugicide, slugify, slugless, sluglike, slug line, slug moth, slug slime, slug snail, slugthrower, slugworm · +11 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for slug. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA